G’day to you! How’s it going? Me? Well, I’m ready for the weekend. I’m dog-tired, I am. Fill your mug, choose a tasty morsel and I’ll tell you about a pooch named ‘Trouble’. Remember Leona Helmsley. Some folks were irate when she passed on and left a bundle to her dog…Trouble. Well now, ol’ Trouble has passed away. Here’s the story…
A very rich dog, which inherited $12 million from U.S. hotelier Leona Helmsley, has died, a spokeswoman for the deceased hotel mogul’s trust said Thursday.
Helmsley, who owned the Helmsley hotel chain, left $12 million in her will to care for her beloved Maltese named Trouble when she died in 2007. A judge reduced the amount to $2 million.
Though Trouble’s death is just now being reported, the dog actually died in December at the age of 12, said Eileen Sullivan, spokeswoman for the Helmsley Charitable Trust.
“She was cremated and her remains are being privately retained. The funds held in trust for her care have reverted to the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust for charitable purposes,” Sullivan said in a statement.
Harry Helmsley was Leona’s late husband.
Sullivan refused to give any other details about Trouble. The New York Daily News newspaper said the dog had been cared for by the manager of the Helmsley Sandcastle Hotel in Sarasota, Florida.
Leona Helmsley was known as “the queen of mean” for the way she treated hotel employees. She served 18 months in prison for tax evasion in the 1990s.
They did have some swanky hotels though, I have to say. Can a dog leave money in a will, I wonder? People don’t have to sign a document if they can’t read – just mark an ‘x’ or in the olden days, sign with a wax seal. Based on that thinking, I should think a paw print would be perfectly acceptable, eh. Need a legal ‘beagle’ to answer that…John in Las Vegas???
See ya and have a salubrious day!!
Bob
Comment from Paul in Tokyo:
Greetings, Bob. This is a very interesting coincidence. I saw this bright cool aid article somewhere else, and I was going to send it to you but then it occurred to me that you had already founded by yourself.
I guess “great stomachs” gravitate to the same haute cuisine.
No wonder the movie “Supersize Me” never seems to show its age.
Cheers.
Bob’s reply:
Indeed. “Would you like fries with that?”
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